NMA Articles

Angela Morris – CEO The Wool Packaging Company As far back as 2005 The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported that up to half (50%) of all vaccines transported globally were ruined due to poor distribution procedures, with a resulting significant impact on human life (1). Today, in 2017 the situation

Dr Chris Holland, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK When asked by my Dphil supervisor if I would like to look into silk rheology I didn’t know what rheology was and how it would shape my research career. Five years on when asked what I do for

Hector Archila, University of the West of England, and Founder, Amphibia BASE Ltd. Interest in bamboo is growing, through research and media campaigning about the material’s environmental benefits, properties and its ability to replace wood, steel and carbon-fibre. But bamboo is not commonly used in high-performance applications or permanent structures,

Dr Parvez Alam CEng FIMechE, FIMMM, FRSB, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, UK Biological adhesions between bacterial cellulose nanofibrils can improve the performance of biomedical skins and grafts. Bacterial cellulose (BC) discovered by A J Brown in 1886 is somewhat similar to plant cellulose. It has the same

Dr Parvez Alam CEng FIMechE, FIMMM, FRSB, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, UK Introduction The San people of Southern Africa are considered by many to be the most ancient race of people in the world. They are nomadic, egalitarian, hunter-gatherers, many of whom have maintained much of their

Issi Rousseva, Architect  What is Mycelium? The word mycelium literally means “more than one”. It is actually a plural form of the word Mycelia. The word has New Latin and Greek origins and was first coined in text in the early 1800’s, and refers to the thread-like body of a